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Two say treatment would have been better option than cell walls: Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008; With her youthful face and mellow disposition, 22-year-old Corrie Pallone doesn’t come across like someone who should be in prison.
Services help determine whether probation succeeds: Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008; The contrast between the probation rates for felons in Nevada and Massachusetts is as stark as the states’ climatic and geographic differences.
Locking up criminals locks in rising costs: Tough sentencing laws keep inmates streaming to crowded facilities; Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008; Nevadans hold two values close: They are tough on crime, and tight-fisted with public money.
They can no longer be both.
A study by the Las Vegas Sun has found that those two values are today in stark opposition.
NLV contemplates a safer boulevard: Taking a hint from Europe, city could turn hazardous road into multiway thoroughfare; Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Southern Nevada is poised to get its first stretch of road that separates buses and bicyclists from other traffic with side medians, a concept that is intended to improve pedestrian safety.
We’re spending more on gasoline, less on having fun: Local economy suffers as money paid for fuel pads oil company profits; Monday, June 16, 2008; Gas prices are siphoning tens of millions of dollars out of Clark County’s economy as money is being spent at the pump instead of at restaurants, on entertainment and on other discretionary items.
Plan would up transit options for old, disabled: Agency identifies gaps in public transportation; Wednesday, June 11, 2008; For elderly and disabled valley residents who are unable to drive and don’t have relatives or friends available to give them rides, getting to medical appointments, social services offices, recreational activities and shopping centers is often difficult.
Transit solutions could be copied here: Next-level bike lanes, bus shoulders have reduced congestion elsewhere; Tuesday, June 10, 2008; The Las Vegas Valley could learn from communities that are taking creative approaches to traffic management — efforts that began long before $4-a-gallon gas started pushing cities in that direction. Here's a look at those ideas and how they could apply locally.
Feeling pain at the pump, agencies downsize, scale back: Thursday, May 29, 2008; Like motorists who are getting squeezed every time they fill their gas tanks, local government agencies are feeling the pain of higher fuel prices, even with cost advantages not available to the average driver.
More commuters taking bus route: For many, saving money comes at cost in time; Las Vegas lags in providing express routes; Monday, May 19, 2008; If you want to get an earful about gasoline prices, a good place to start is the Downtown Transit Center. And once you’re there, a good person to start with is Mario Pawlik.
Buyers sign $30 million deal for topless club: Out-of-state Crazy Horse Too purchasers formed company last week, their attorney says; Thursday, April 24, 2008; After months of negotiations with several suitors, the federal government finally has buyers for the Crazy Horse Too.
Your guide to the players: Thursday, March 20, 2008; A dizzying number of public agencies and private organizations are involved in the public health crisis that has resulted in 40,000 people being advised to seek testing for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. What follows is a list of key players.
Blood gifts off since health scare: Fear of ‘needle contact’ cuts donations at bank’s fixed sites, official says; Saturday, March 15, 2008; The Las Vegas Valley’s blood bank has seen donations drop steeply since the hepatitis scare triggered by dangerous medical practices at a local clinic.
For malpractice info, you’ll have to phone: It’s not on Web for M.D.s, will be for osteopaths; Sunday, March 9, 2008; If you want to know whether any doctor has a history of medical malpractice claims or settlements, don’t look for answers on the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners Web site, medboard.nv.gov.
Medical board stronger, but is it up to task?: Critics say past leniency makes them wonder about clinic case; Sunday, March 9, 2008; The investigation into a Las Vegas clinic whose flawed medical procedures led to a hepatitis C outbreak has thrust the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners into uncharted territory — a massively complex puzzle that has become a national concern.
Knowledge is power: Filling in the gaps: Tuesday, March 4, 2008; Here are the answers to other frequently asked questions about the hepatitis C outbreak connected to flawed medical practices at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.
Hepatitis scare malpractice cases already in works: Friday, Feb. 29, 2008; Las Vegas class action attorney Will Kemp said he got a phone call Wednesday from a man who feared he had contracted a harmful virus at a medical clinic.
If you plan to drive, plan to dig deep, local transportation expert says: Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008; Long before the deadly collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis in August, Congress realized that the federal government had to do a better job of improving the nation’s surface transportation network.
Business-friendly bus passes aimed at traffic: Proposal: Make it easier, cheaper to buy rides for employees; Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008; One way to ease the Las Vegas Valley’s congested thoroughfares is to prod employers to encourage their workers to take buses to and from their jobs.
Sister dead and tarnished, brother pushes for truth: Quest: To prove politics motivated the investigation of Augustine; Monday, Feb. 4, 2008; Phil Alfano knows he can’t bring back his older sister, the late Nevada Controller Kathy Augustine.
But what he can do is search for the truth about the lengths her political enemies went to tarnish her public career before her July 11, 2006, death. In June, a jury convicted Augustine’s husband, Chaz Higgs, of killing her.
“It bothers me to think that the last few months of her life she was having to deal with this nonsense,” Alfano said.
Official: Foam’s OK, despite fire: Code lets Monte Carlo rebuild with same material; Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008; For all the attention that has been heaped on the foam that burned in the Monte Carlo fire Jan. 25, the hotel could be rebuilt today using essentially the same kind of foam in the same applications because the stuff is fine, experts and building officials say.
The band played on: Friday, Jan. 25, 2008; Life in Las Vegas kept going on the Las Vegas Strip today -- even as flames shot out of the top floors of the Monte Carlo Resort & Casino.
Aflutter over Nevada: Nation is all over the map on how important or not our caucus is: Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008; The endorsement of Nevada’s “powerful Culinary Workers Union” earned Illinois Sen. Barack Obama headlines across the country Wednesday.
With debate, Nevada gets its 15 minutes: Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007; You knew there would be a few cheap shots and cliched one-liners about the gambling, the gangsters and the other things that long have made Las Vegas such an easy target, wrapped around endless variations on the city's famous "What happens here ... " marketing slogan - and there were.
After 14 years wrongly served, he sues those who put him behind bars: Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007; A Las Vegas man released from prison in March after a federal judge determined he was wrongfully convicted of sexually abusing his daughter has filed a lawsuit against key players in the case, including the prosecutor and the public defender.
More cameras on the Strip?: Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007; Although the Strip and the resorts along it already are among the world's most intensely monitored areas in terms of security surveillance, Las Vegas Boulevard may be about to get a new set of eyes watching over it - and not everyone feels safer because of it.
Gibbons should stand up to lenders, push them to help homeowners, FHA official says: Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007; One of the invited participants at today's closed-door housing summit to be hosted by Gov. Jim Gibbons in Las Vegas said he hopes the governor takes advantage of available solutions that could help some Nevada homeowners avoid foreclosure.
If UNLV needs a role model for disclosure, try Ohio: Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007; As the Nevada System of Higher Education grapples with how to disclose the off-campus consulting work of its educators and other professional staff, it could look to Ohio for advice.
Speculators bear brunt of foreclosures: Big majority of homes lost aren't owner-occupied; Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007; If location, location and location are the most important factors in real estate, timing is not far behind.
Bridge safety a bit shaky: Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007; With last month's fatal bridge collapse in Minneapolis raising nationwide concerns about bridge safety, Nevada officials say the potential threat they need to worry about most deals not with the spans' structural deficiencies, but earthquakes.
Growing traffic, shrinking chances of help from feds: Monday, Sept. 3, 2007; Although the Nevada Legislature did little this year to reduce gridlock on interstates and other roads, anyone looking to the federal government for immediate relief will be disappointed.
Uncle Sam now owns strip club: Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007; Another page in the saga of Rick Rizzolo was written Wednesday when U.S. marshals seized the notorious Crazy Horse Too, his former strip club on Industrial Road.
Edwards draws out feud with Giuliani: Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007; In his latest effort to court organized labor and the working class in Las Vegas, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday lambasted President Bush and called for assurances that imported food, toys and medicine are safe for American consumers.
Regents not set to pull trigger on disclosure: Friday, Aug. 10, 2007; A Board of Regents panel wants more information before deciding whether to require Nevada university professors and other professional employees to publicly disclose off-campus employment or to continue to allow them to keep that work confidential.
Councilman's labor post a concern for some on ethics panel: Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007; Although Las Vegas Councilman Steve Ross insists he can serve in his new role as a local labor leader without conflicts of interest, state ethics commissioners who met with him behind closed doors in May warned him that he would be walking an ethical tightrope.
LOCKED DOWN: Monday, July 23, 2007; If a recent federal indictment proves accurate, what the Aryan Warriors do behind bars is as bad as - or worse than - what the white supremacist gang members did to be imprisoned in the first place.
Interstate 15 project to test idea: Why wait for design to build?: Sunday, July 8, 2007; The planned widening of Interstate 15 from the Spaghetti Bowl to Craig Road will be the first Nevada highway project to be designed and built simultaneously, a process that could result in faster completion but also raises questions about cost and government oversight.
Next stop: Buses that let riders log on: Thursday, July 5, 2007; By this time next year Las Vegas commuters on certain express buses essentially will be able to reach their offices or classrooms before arriving at their destinations by using their laptop computers to make free high-speed wireless connections to the Internet and e-mail.
One arena bidder has played the game: Friday, June 29, 2007; Only one of the seven companies bidding to build an arena in downtown Las Vegas has actually developed and operated sports facilities, but some of the others have linked up with top arena and stadium architects.
Many other cities reveal bidders for sports arenas: Thursday, June 28, 2007; In contrast to Las Vegas' move to select a company to build a sports arena without disclosing who is bidding on the project, other U.S. communities have publicly revealed the names of firms competing for the lucrative contracts before making their decision.
In the works: More places to park your car, hop a ride: Tuesday, June 19, 2007; More than a decade ago, many valley residents who worked at the Nevada Test Site simplified their daily commute by parking their cars in a North Rancho Drive lot to catch express buses that took them to their jobs 65 miles to the northwest.
Payday lenders, primed customers: Tuesday, June 5, 2007; By allowing people to pay utility bills at payday lenders, Nevada Power Co. and other utilities nationwide may be making them more susceptible to turn to the high-interest-rate operations for other financial matters, an advocacy group for low-income customers says.
Two builders own our roads: Wednesday, May 30, 2007; Click here for a printable graphic.
Landowner vs. landowner: Friday, May 25, 2007; Click here for a printable graphic.
Bill out to guard Vegas water from uranium: Tuesday, May 22, 2007; The Energy Department would have to more quickly move a radioactive uranium pile away from a site in Utah near the Colorado River, which supplies Southern Nevadans' drinking water, under a bill approved last week by the House of Representatives.
Boxer's lucky night: Test run finds brain bleed: Friday, May 11, 2007; Lorenzo Bethea lost a bout that preceded the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Oscar De La Hoya showdown Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, but won a much bigger fight when a portable medical scanning device detected a potentially life-threatening brain injury.
Detours ahead downtown: Wednesday, April 4, 2007; Although their task may not be as challenging as navigating downtown Las Vegas streets at 180 mph, hotel guests and race fans are in for some fast twists and turns of their own during this weekend's Vegas Grand Prix.
Issues out the window as race gets testy: Friday, March 30, 2007; The Ward 1 race pitting Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian against challengers Laurie Bisch and Shawn Spanier is devolving into a mudslinging affair that would make a World Wrestling Entertainment promoter envious.
Sands loses second suit against Sun, columnist: Tuesday, March 27, 2007; An amended defamation lawsuit filed by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. against the Las Vegas Sun and Business Editor Jeff Simpson was dismissed Monday by District Judge Michelle Leavitt, who also rejected the initial lawsuit in November.
Treasurer requests probe of missing records: Saturday, March 17, 2007; Nevada law requires the state treasurer's office to preserve records for one year to 30 years, depending on the nature of the documents.
Light rail option is derailed: Sunday, March 4, 2007; It takes only a few rush-hour trips along the Las Vegas Valley's clogged interstates and major surface streets - or about 10 minutes anytime on the Strip - to conclude there must be a better, quicker way of getting from almost any here to practically every there.